File properties (Custom) 1

[J-C]

Help mentions you can add custom properties through Windows explorer (Right-click / Properties / Custom) and they will show up as Part Attributes in UG. This doesn't seem to be the case though.

What I want to do is enter the "description" as a custom property for both the Model and Drawing file without having UG open. Plan to do it with a VB program that accesses both file's custom properties. Then in UG the description in the title block would be linked to the property(attribute).

Upon check into our PDM (Matrix), it would automatically extract this into the database for both Drawing and Model object types.

Any idea why this doesn't work as the help suggests?

Jason Capriotti
Smith & Nephew, Inc.

 

[mlhall]

I was wondering if anyone knows a way to be build a searchable file database using attributes from File>Properties>Custom Tab in windows XP. Basically what I am wanting is a way to organize files like today's mediaplayer (i.e. iTunes). Presently at our office we keep a drawing registry listing of the parts that we have drawn. With iTunes you are able to build a Music Library of all of the mp3 in a given directory and all of the file properties are contained within the file. The Music Library is searchable within iTunes. You can even change file properties and have it update the file properties from within the program. My thoughts are if you can do this with mp3's surely there is programs out where you can do it with other types of files. I believe the EDS offers Teamcenter organize files, but I believe that this is overkill for our needs.